I believe we only have two Death Hounds that can be followers. What I think would be a great Idea would be to be able to transform your Stray Dog into a Death Hound by giving it a Death Hound Coller somehow.
I'm not completely sure how this would work, but perhaps putting on the useless Death Hound collor onto the Stray Dog, and then being able to bite it, while a Vampire obviously.
What do you think?

Be cool if you could make dogs and horses in the game semi-immortal by vampirising them. I never take normal dogs anywhere because I'm afraid they'll get hurt.

Indeed.
Normal dogs are practically useless, so being able to give them a Death Hound Transformation would be a major improvement.

Be awesome if they made the death hounds level past 25 x)

C'mere Meeko. Good boy. I've got'ta little present for you... But in all seriousness, it's a good idea.

Maybe use Vampire Seduction, put the Death Hound Collar on them, and then bite them? And they should scale with your level so they aren't weak!

Yeah, they're pretty weak to be honest. They need that extra boost to make them strong enough to survive against most enemies. In packs, they're strong, but you can easily pick them off one by one. We need them to be able to stand up for themselves.



Haha.
And yeah, thanks.


Yeah, sounds good to be honest.
And definately. They're incredibly weaker than they're made out to be. The frost cloak is useless as it, basically, only drains stamina. May hinder some people, but they could be better. When I had Garmir follow me, he wasn't that bad, up untill I had to do one of the missions where we make our way to Garmir died at the start! there were only Skeletons there! and I was only around Level 20 at the time, so no major Terrifying enemies.
They really need a boost.

This. Make them level scale like normal dog followers. Cap at level 25 is fine, but not level 5. Vampire side really got gypped in the follower department when compared to Dawnguard side.

Yeah. I used the console to level them up to 50 and increase their Health/Stamina so they could survive. My Argonian Necromage (VL) uses them along with either Lydia, Vilkas or my self made vampiric Nord Blackguard.

Some usable death hounds would be nice, they only level to 5 iirc, they don't get much more health than 100.

I don't see why they didn't have a 'pen' area to the castle, full of generic unnamed levelled death hounds. The two named death hounds should level aswell.